Math Teacher Mambo

You would have thought by the scrunched faces and cries of "this is harrrrrrrrrd" a bit ago, that I was slowly poisoning my studen...

My husband is the nice spouse in our relationship. He also gives thoughtful presents whenever we actually do exchange gifts (not a big thing...

I think the other worksheet/class work went okay. It is too soon to tell. I made a day 2 sheet HERE . Also, there have been so many crazy da...

Sigh of sadness. We are now done with our trigonometry unit. But on the plus side, we get to move on to vectors and all sorts of other good ...

I didn't like the treatment I gave to Accumulation Functions and the "2nd part" of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, so I t...

In honor of Valentine's day this Friday, I made a sheet of mixed practice problems in which the students have to decide which law to use...

I was browsing on the math section of Pinterest the other day and found a math activity for elementary school kids.  It was similar to this ...

Yeesh, at this rate, school will be out in July or something. We had sleety drippy cold 27F weather this morning, and it started out as a ...

I'm mulling over recent events and trying to decide how to handle this next year if it comes up again.  Background story. At our schoo...

A while ago I mentioned that I wanted to get the students to create some more realistic related rates scenarios for calculus. I made up a sh...

Last year or so I saw our AP English teacher had pictures (with AP Exam score) up of previous kids who had passed the AP exam. I thought it ...

Okay little Calculus Kidlets, maybe THIS will settle things in your mind. After reading my end-of-semester surveys, too many students were...

Our administration reminds us every semester that every class must give a survey to every student and then share the responses with our depa...

Happy New Year! Happy New Calculus Activity.  I'm not 100% (okay, even 60%) sure my students fully grasp the challenging topic of how ...

I could be grading finals, but ... phawwwww, maybe I'll blog instead. You're supposed to take brain breaks, right? RIGHT?!?! The G...

My rookie FTC Robotics kids and I keep joking around that next weekend at our first qualifier, we do NOT want to get the "Bless Your He...

I did the Match Making Project again with my Computer Science 1 students this year, and I added a new component that just makes me giggle. ...

I happened to be in the car at the right time a while ago, and heard an interview with Aisha Tyler. I don't remember if this was the int...

This year I am coaching an FTC Robotics team for the first time (for me and our school). Here are some of my students at our first scri...

The joys of students scrambling to take care of business on the LAST minute of the LAST day of the LAST week of the grading term. What's...